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Look up "A Modest Proposal" on the Internet and tag and save in your Diigo, or use the pamphlet located in the back of your novel. Diigo will allow you to download a function which allows you to highlight on-line and save remarks. Otherwise, do it old school. Kick back, grab a snack, and enjoy the world's greatest piece of satire. You will thank me later for this scrumptious opportunity to gorge yourself on grade A literature.
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1. In your composition book list 3 purely logical reasons Swift employs to end hunger in Ireland. Explain how they will work.
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2. Next, provide a quotation which illustrates humour in this piece of rhetoric.
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3. Evaluate in a paragraph the usage of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in this piece along with the overall piece's effectiveness.
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4. Enjoy!
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
FUTURE WORK
All A.P. Lang students are to read "The Voyage to Lilliput".
Tag with post it notes the following items to have for a rather informal seminar....a casual conversation if you will.
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift A.P. Seminar
Name_
Questions to consider
Be able to discuss the following:
1. The symbolism/significance of the Lilliputians’ size. Answer in composition book.
2. Detail and provide some witty uses of Sarcasm. Tag an example.
3. Discuss some of the absurdities of the book. Tag an example.
4. How are historical people being impugned or defended? Tag an example.
5. Discuss historical events or precedents being lambasted. Tag an example.
6. Greatest example of hyperbole or exaggeration. (Passages) Tag an example.
7. Discuss some of the “utopian” principals hinted at in the voyage. List them in your composition book.
8. Overall theme of book one-Swift’s overall message Answer in composition book.(1/2 page)
9. Relate political attack in novel to today’s world. Answer in composition book. (1/2 page)
10. Analyze and compare to today or other pieces of literature read this year (or other years). Answer in composition book. (1/2 page) .
11. Record and define at least 20 vocabulary words from the text. Answer in composition book.
Seminar Evaluation
Remark Tallies_
Quote Tallies
Strength of Comments 1 2 3 4 5
Strength of Quotations 1 2 3 4 5
Notes of preparation for seminar 1 2 3 4 5 (x2) Comp Book Notes and Post its.
Total x2 Final
For additional credit add your name and one trivial fact about Jonathan Swift or the novel. It can be a fact, picture, political cartoon, anything....who knows what shall happen below.
A Modest Proposal Assignment
.Look up "A Modest Proposal" on the Internet and tag and save in your Diigo, or use the pamphlet located in the back of your novel. Diigo will allow you to download a function which allows you to highlight on-line and save remarks. Otherwise, do it old school. Kick back, grab a snack, and enjoy the world's greatest piece of satire. You will thank me later for this scrumptious opportunity to gorge yourself on grade A literature.
.
1. In your composition book list 3 purely logical reasons Swift employs to end hunger in Ireland. Explain how they will work.
.
2. Next, provide a quotation which illustrates humour in this piece of rhetoric.
.
3. Evaluate in a paragraph the usage of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in this piece along with the overall piece's effectiveness.
.
4. Enjoy!
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
FUTURE WORK
All A.P. Lang students are to read "The Voyage to Lilliput".
Tag with post it notes the following items to have for a rather informal seminar....a casual conversation if you will.
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
A.P. Seminar
Name_
Questions to consider
Be able to discuss the following:
1. The symbolism/significance of the Lilliputians’ size. Answer in composition book.
2. Detail and provide some witty uses of Sarcasm. Tag an example.
3. Discuss some of the absurdities of the book. Tag an example.
4. How are historical people being impugned or defended? Tag an example.
5. Discuss historical events or precedents being lambasted. Tag an example.
6. Greatest example of hyperbole or exaggeration. (Passages) Tag an example.
7. Discuss some of the “utopian” principals hinted at in the voyage. List them in your composition book.
8. Overall theme of book one-Swift’s overall message Answer in composition book.(1/2 page)
9. Relate political attack in novel to today’s world. Answer in composition book. (1/2 page)
10. Analyze and compare to today or other pieces of literature read this year (or other years). Answer in composition book. (1/2 page)
.
11. Record and define at least 20 vocabulary words from the text. Answer in composition book.
Seminar Evaluation
Remark Tallies_
Quote Tallies
Strength of Comments 1 2 3 4 5
Strength of Quotations 1 2 3 4 5
Notes of preparation for seminar 1 2 3 4 5 (x2) Comp Book Notes and Post its.
Total x2 Final
For additional credit add your name and one trivial fact about Jonathan Swift or the novel. It can be a fact, picture, political cartoon, anything....who knows what shall happen below.
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